On Tuesday next week my wife is taking a day off and we’re planning to have a nice lunch somewhere. Unfortunately the place we sometimes go to for such things, Otto in Woolloomooloo, isn’t open on Tuesdays. So I had to find a new place, with the constraints that it has to be open for lunch on Tuesdays, and has seating which allows dogs so that we can take Scully.
There’s a bit of a poor overlap between fancy dining places and restaurants that allow dogs. But after some searching I found the Empire Lounge, which is on a wharf in Rose Bay, a suburb on Sydney Harbour. It looks pretty nice and after confirming they’d be okay with Scully I booked us in for lunch next week.
In other food news, I took Scully for a walk this morning and decided to visit Moon Phase for a pastry. They had an Easter special: a carrot cake pastry!
It was delicious. A warm and spicy carrot cake centre, surrounded by crisp flaky pastry, topped with cream cheese icing, crunchy glazed pecans, and… some dill! I’m not sure why dill, but yeah, it worked.
Today I mostly worked on writing new Darths & Droids strips. I’m trying to build up a three-week (or more) buffer as quickly as I can, to cover my trip in June. So a day dedicated to it was sensible at this stage.
Tonight I made lentil dhal with potatoes for dinner, and had a little before my first online class started at 5pm. I’m busy teaching from 5-8pm, so I can’t eat at a normal dinner time. I had a little before to tide me over and then had another bowl afterwards.
But the good part is finishing an hour earlier than during daylight saving time!